Therefore, each empty apartment reduces the number of purchase commitments he must obtain.

They resided in Macau and Nagasaki, and accepted purchase commitments by Japanese customers such as the shogunate daimyo and wealthy merchants.

But the consortium said it had 104 purchase "commitments" for the planes from nine airlines.

But the consortium, Airbus Industrie, surprised industry experts by saying that it now had a total of 104 purchase "commitments" for the planes from nine airlines.

In response, many clubs have dropped their purchase commitments.

At 31 December 1992 the Group had forward purchase commitments amounting to Deutschmarks 9 million (1991: nil).

Despite the lack of purchase commitments, he said, more attention has focused on the trade issue since then.

The latest periods' results were also reduced by pre-tax charge of $3 million for writedown of inventories and provision for loss on purchase commitments.

But with the Premium Funding program, Citibank will need to have only $8 of capital per $100 of purchase commitment.

Community Energy already has municipal purchase commitments of seven million kilowatt hours.